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Russian oligarch threatens to sue media over opposition investigation
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A Russian business mogul allied with Vladimir Putin threatened Friday to sue media outlets for reporting accusations that the tyc00n held a secret meeting with a senior Russian government official aboard his yacht in 2016.

The allegations, stemming from an investigation by Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, come as Russia heads toward presidential elections next month that are expected to keep Putin in office.

Oleg Deripaska, a magnate who owns one of Russia’s largest industrial groups, said in a statement that the investigation by Alexey Navalny was part of a “planned campaign aiming to damage my reputation.”

The opposition leader had accused Deripaska of bribing the official, Sergei Prikhodko, a deputy prime minister and former aide to Putin, by entertaining him on his yacht with several women described as escorts. The video has attracted more than 1.2 million views, but no official reaction.

A spokesman for Putin declined to comment on the video Friday during a daily telephone call with journalists.

Instagram account of Deripaska, who has an estimated net worth of $6.7 billion, according to Forbes.

Navalny’s investigation used open-source data and Instagram photographs and videos posted by a woman named Nastya Rybka, who had previously written a book about her escort work.

In an interview on Russian television last year, Rybka said she has been hired by a modeling agency to spend time at Deripaska's yacht. The investigation linked the yacht trip with salacious details written in a book by Rybka, and speculated that the meeting could be tied to accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Ilya Shumanov, a vice president for Transparency International in Russia, called the investigation “very interesting” for its use of social media to chronicle alleged ties between wealth and power in Russia that are rarely available to the public.

“A lot of people know that there are these kinds of talks between high Russian officials and oligarchs, but, of course, it’s not often possible to show it quite like this,” he said.

It is possible that paying for travel and entertainment could be construed as a bribe in Russia.

Navalny responded to Deripaska on Instagram, writing: “What are you calling the false accusations? Was government official Prikhodko not aboard your yacht? Did he not fly there on your plane?”

Despite the clip’s popularity on social networks, it’s unlikely it will lead to any kind of official investigation or derail what seems a surefire reelection bid for Putin’s fourth term as president.

“These clips give additional weight to Navalny as an opposition politician,” said Oleg Kashin, a popular journalist who often speaks critically of the government, “but the fight against corruption in Russia has already become a kind of game. Society has gotten used to the fact that bureaucrats live dishonestly.”

Lawyers for Deripaska sued the Associated Press last year over an article that said he had paid former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort for work aimed at advancing the goals of the Russian government and Putin. They dropped the defamation lawsuit in December.

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Navalny is a real one out here, I think. Anybody more familiar with it care to weigh in? The whole Russian palace intrigue is something I can’t judge from afar and know if I’m correct. It would seem that, because we have seen it so many times now, and nobody will do anything about it, Putin would just have Navalny killed, so why he is still alive and able to do all that shyt out here? Is he a plant? Are the oligarchs hedging with Navalny? Has he just not been killed yet? It just seems like everything that actually comes out of Russia is a “production” and “orchestrated” by the Russian government.
 

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With Rob Porter Gone, Trump Turns His Anger On Hicks and Kelly

I believe it is safe to assume that the "Republican" or "Republican source close to the White House" is Reince Priebus since it was leaked that Dotard called him to vent about Kelly. There are 2 things that are interesting about this Vanity Fair article:

1. Trump blames Hope Hicks for authorizing Michael Wolff WH interviews.

2. Hope is protected like one of the family members. Which gives Seth's and others claims of Hope being the gatekeeper to communicating with Trump a lot more weight.

Hope Hicks is inevitably going to be Trump's downfall.
 

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Trump White House Fingered Corey Lewandowski in Rob Porter ‘Smear Campaign’

The White House officials told Hatch’s office that the story was the product of a “smear campaign” being orchestrated against Porter by his political enemies. Among those they pinpointed was former Trump campaign manager (and current outside adviser to the president) Corey Lewandowski, according to two sources familiar with the conversations. Multiple White House staffers told Hatch himself that Lewandowski “was digging into Rob’s previous marriages,” recalled one source, who said Porter himself was among the officials who fingered Lewandowski.
 
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